Roomates

Once the students were all seated, the hover buses started moving. The journey was a silent one. Well, apart from Susu who kept chatting with her during the journey.

Soon, they arrived at their destination. The three buses highlighted in front of a hotel. There were also buses from other schools arriving just in time with them.

There were thousands of contestants from different schools joining the competition. Thankfully, the hotel parking lot were large enough to contains each respective school hover buses.

Xue Yiran and the others got down from the bus. They were greeted with sight of students from other academy descending down from their respective school bus. Since there were still a lot of schools that were yet to arrive, the teachers led them to the hotel they were going to lodge at.

Based on their figures, only ten girls and twenty boys were chosen to participate in the competition. Due to their huge number, five of them were made to share a room together. Resulting Xue Yiran to share a room with five girls.

It was fine by her since it's nothing new to her. However, the other girls behind her had a lot of things to say. They were dissatisfied with the arrangements.

Why do they have to share a room among themselves when other school are taking a room to themselves. It's truly unfair.

"If you want the school to provide a room personally for your needs, you will have to emerge as the champion of this competition. Even if you want the whole hotel to yourself, I'll personally ask the principal for it. Simply on the premise that you reached the top of the leaderboard. If you can't do that, then shut your mouth and go back to your room." It was common to see such type of scene among the newly arrival students, still the teacher wasn't pleased with such situation. 

The students who had raised a fuse earlier could only lower her head and sulk at the teacher statement.

Seeing the student subservient expression, the teacher lifted head and directed her gaze to the other student. "Do anyone have a problem with my arrangements?"

"No, ma'am." 

"Great. You can group yourself into a team of five. Here's the keys to your rooms." The teacher brought out six keys and handed it to them. "It has been a long journey; you can all go to your room and have a bath before coming to the cafeteria to eat."

Taking into account of the teacher words, everyone immediately teamed up and entered the hotel. Surprisingly, Aviva was among Xue Yiran's roommate. That's quite astonishing, in spite of the hate Aviva had for Xue Yiran.

Entering the room, Xue Yiran chooses a bed that was next to the window and put her case beside it.

"I'll be washing up first." She announced, taking an extra wear before entering into the bathroom.

"Gosh, this is so embarrassing." One of the girls ruffled her hair before finally choosing a bed. "How am I supposed to share a room with four other people? Also, didn't you seen the way the girls as the corridor were making fun of us. I guess they must have been discussing how meagre our academy is."

"It's just for a week. Once the competition is over, we'll return back. So, bear with it." Another girl said.

"How am I supposed to bear with it. This is so unfair. Can't the school fork out some expenses and get a room for us."

"My name is Aviva, part of the substitutes group. Why don't we introduce ourselves?" Aviva, who had been silent all along suddenly spoke.

Of course, everyone in the room recognized her. She was the one in the scandalous video that was posted on the group forum. Still, they decided to keep mum about the event and introduced themselves.

The second to introduce herself was the girl who had been complaining about the room. "Hello, my name is Beverly. I'm among the contestants chosen."

"I'm Emily. I'm also a contestant." The girl beside Beverly introduced.

"Isabel." The last girl introduced before finally adding. "Also, a substitute."

The four girls began discussing among themselves. Xue Yiran finally emerges from the bathroom, dressed in a long black pants and white shirt.

"You're Xue Yiran right." Beverly immediately questioned. "I heard that you transferred to Hermes academy from Roland academy, due to the rumors going on with you and the crown prince. It's quite funny thinking of it. I really admire your courage."

Xue Yiran shot a look at Beverly, before finally turning her gaze away.

"Don't you think so?" Beverly looked over at Emily in answer.

"I'll be washing up next." Emily didn't bother to answer Beverly question and walked into the bathroom with clean clothes in her hands.

Xue Yiran walked towards her bed and started to arrange her belongings into her own compartment space. Aviva was busy watching her movement. Xue Yiran could feel Aviva gaze on her, but decided to ignored the intense gaze.

After finishing setting up her belongings, she put on her light brain onto her wrist and walked out of the room.

There were several people in the passage way. Since the place where both girls and boys reside were different from one another, there were only girls who were walking down the passageway. All of them were all heading to a certain destination.

The cafeteria.

Ever since the arrival of Creamery Creamer, the food culture in the interstellar has undergone a huge change.

Most restaurant now serves delicious food. Even though the energy gain from such food was quite low, one can still enjoy the delicious delicacy with fulfillment.

There was a long line in front of the counter. The mechanical robots were busy serving the students their order.

Xue Yiran stood behind the line. Once it was her turn, she orders some chicken and waffles along with it. Soon, her lunch was given.

Being a crowded moment, it was hard to find a seat in the cafeteria. Her tray of food in her hand, Xue Yiran had to followed Susu instructions to where there was an empty seat.

About to be on her way, without warning, she heard a loud exclamation behind her. Followed by it was her name being called.

"Oh my, it's Xue Yiran!" The girl outcry was loud enough for everyone to hear.

Pausing on her steps, Xue Yiran turned around, looking towards the direction of the voice. Behind her stood four girls, each dressed in a short brown skirts and white shirt. Their dresses couldn't be more familiar to her, as it was the Roland academy uniform.

The girls were unfamiliar to her. However, Xue Yiran knew that for whatever reason they must have stopped her, it must be nothing good. Hence, she turned her head around and headed to where Susu directed her too.